Adaptations by Long-Term Commercial Fishing Families in the California Bight: Coping with Changing Coastal Ecological and Social Systems

From: Human Organization | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Keenan, Sean P; Endter-Wada, Joanna | Copyright information

Our case study explores how 51 long-term commercial fishing households adapted to changing ecological and social systems of the California Bight from the 1960s to the 1990s. We explore fishing operation, household, and collective action strategies for adapting to change. While long-term fishermen expressed some similar motivations for commercial fishing, strategies that they and their families pursued to remain in fishing were highly individualized. Only a little over half of this group fishe...

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